Importing photos from Lightroom

Many photographers, particularly pros, use Adobe Lightroom to organize their photos.…Lightroom is a useful alternative to bridge in Photoshop for most of the tasks…you would do to choose and prepare photos for use in BookSmart.…In earlier movies I showed you how to do some of those tasks using Bridge in…Photoshop and mentioned that you could do some of those things in Lightroom.…Let's take a closer look now at preparing and exporting photos from Lightroom…for import into BookSmart.…I am working in Lightroom 3 where I imported all of the photos that you see here…into this catalog or database.…

I will select all photographs and then I can see thumbnails of all of the…photographs in this catalog, regardless of where they're located in my folder structures.…That will help me select the photos that I want to use in my BookSmart book.…I can move pretty quickly through lots of photos by just looking at them here in…the content area, clicking on a photo that I want to include in my book, and then…

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10/12/2011

Creating Photo Books with Blurb presents three separate workflows for creating and publishing books that showcase photographs using the Blurb self-publishing service. The course starts with an exploration of photo bookmaking in BookSmart, Blurb's free desktop software, then shows how to make a simple photo book in Bookify, Blurb's online bookmaking service. The course also covers Blurb's PDF to Book plug-in for use with custom books created in Adobe InDesign, as well as information on ordering copies of photo books and selling them in the Blurb online bookstore.